PidgePay

Release notes

New features, design updates and improvements to PidgePay, newest first.

2026-10-14

  • Bigger success pigeons that pop in and hop
  • A pay link's preview card shows your @username
  • New senders land in 'people you don't know' instead of being refused
  • Request money from someone directly, with a requests inbox and spam protection (web and app)
  • Every pay link gets its own preview card when you share it
  • Lottie fire for the streak flame, with a details sheet
  • Motion and haptics outside compose
  • Hold to pay, a livelier keypad and a coin-drop moment in the app
  • Weekly streak flame on the app's Home
  • Motion and haptics foundation
  • Clearer payment limits and easier amount adjustments
  • Clearer balance updates across all supported networks
  • A cleaner Home screen
  • Pay from another balance from $0.50 on Arc, Solana and layer-2 networks ($5 on Ethereum)
  • On Ethereum, pay the network fee from another balance or with ETH
  • Your Home balance loads once, without a double animation
  • No more misleading “Only 0 USDC available” while paying from another balance
  • The app picks the network for you when you send or pay
  • Send picks the network and token for you
  • Pay from any balance and pay fees in USDC, now in the mobile app too
  • Payments route automatically when your money sits on another network
  • A clear message when you have no coin to pay the network fee
  • The request page loads reliably again
  • Pay from any balance: PidgePay routes your money across networks, with fees in USDC or USDT

2026-10-13

  • Arc is now PidgePay's home network
  • Lower a payment amount with one tap to leave room for the PidgePay fee
  • Accept decimal commas in the amount keypad
  • Clearer public release notes
  • A release notes page to follow what's new in PidgePay
  • Pay network fees in USDC or USDT on Ethereum, Base, Optimism and Arbitrum
  • Refresh app previews and add branded homepage QR codes
  • Improved payment flow stability
  • Pay network fees from your email wallet in USDC or USDT, without needing ETH
  • Clearer feedback when your balance is too low to send a payment

2026-10-12

  • Sleeping pigeons on the empty News screen, on web and mobile
  • A cleaner background on the empty History screen
  • Refreshed colours and illustrations for Pay and Request
  • Request and Pay are easier to find on Home, with a new empty History illustration
  • Request and Pay lead the mobile Home screen, with clearer keypad digits and a new pigeon
  • A new three-shot pigeon animation for Pay many on mobile
  • Bigger, livelier pigeons across the mobile app
  • A dedicated icon for Pay or request
  • Smoother payments after signing in with email
  • Clearer feedback when adding money
  • A bigger animated pigeon on the Pay many card
  • The line-and-colour icons in the tab bar
  • Line-and-colour menu icons, a bigger pigeon on an empty News
  • Easier access to Pay many and a refreshed Pay or request button
  • Bring the menu pigeons back
  • Line icons in the menu, a tidier claim card
  • Calmer payout cards, a yellow Request keypad and smoother menu behaviour
  • New animated pigeons across the mobile app
  • Smoother screen and menu animations on web
  • New animated pigeons across the web app
  • Clearer amount displays and easier access to keypad controls
  • A refreshed web app design
  • Refreshed pigeon illustrations on the homepage
  • New pigeon illustrations for payments and empty screens on mobile
  • New pigeon illustrations for payments and empty screens on web

2026-10-11

  • A redesigned mobile app with a pigeon tab bar, keypad and News screen

2026-10-09

  • Smoother web app animations and faster loading
  • Improved homepage sign-in, including Google
  • Homepage buttons take you directly to the app
  • Clearer fee information and sponsor navigation on the homepage
  • Smoother hover animations for homepage buttons

2026-10-08

  • A redesigned homepage with more pigeons

2026-10-07

  • Transparent pigeon animations on iPhone
  • A new homepage, with the payment app at /app

2026-10-05

  • Your @username is now visible on web and mobile

2026-10-04

  • Meet your @username during onboarding
  • Claim an @username and pay people by name on web and mobile

2026-09-30

  • Improved mobile request reliability when your connection drops

2026-09-29

  • The request form is easier to reach on small screens
  • A clearer message when a payment link is invalid
  • Clearer payment progress and request status, with improved offline feedback
  • Your requests appear in History, with easier access to Request on Home
  • Easier browsing and bidding on sponsor spots
  • Smoother wallet sign-in on mobile
  • A branded page for missing links and improved search previews
  • Smoother homepage sign-in and clearer forms and navigation
  • Pick a recipient from your contacts when sending money
  • Clearer homepage, sign-in and fee wording

2026-09-27

  • Faster desktop loading with smoother transitions and a branded loader
  • Improved payments, keyboard behaviour and text layout on small phones
  • Smoother payment approval in mobile wallets
  • The "$" in amount fields is no longer clipped
  • Welcome tour in two columns on desktop, wider on tablets
  • Improved mobile app startup and onboarding on small phones
  • Clearer progress and completion feedback for mobile payments
  • Clearer total balances and balances by network on mobile
  • Smoother mobile sign-in and sign-out
  • Web welcome tour, shown once per user
  • Clearer payment progress and status for paid requests
  • Smoother sign-up, sign-in and sign-out
  • Edit named contacts, with clearer send and request wording
  • Clearer total balances and balances by network on the dashboard

2026-09-25

  • Smoother mobile onboarding and a simpler sign-in screen
  • A refreshed mobile introduction and sign-in screen
  • Meet Pidge onboarding, and a smoother app
  • Tabs open on their screen, not a sheet; the website's pigeon icons
  • A consistent mobile design with support for external wallets
  • Improved payment reliability when reopening the mobile app
  • Clearer mobile payment feedback and smoother wallet reconnection
  • Improved mobile payment reliability and app responsiveness
  • Improved handling of remaining amounts on payment requests

2026-09-24

  • Send money, request payments, use pay links and pay many in the mobile app
  • Sign in with email and get a wallet

2026-09-23

  • An improved wallet connection screen on mobile

2026-09-21

  • Support for Robinhood Chain and USDG payments

2026-09-10

  • Simpler payment requests and branded payment QR cards
  • Search your payment history and expand receipts

2026-09-07

  • Improved fee handling and clearer batch receipts

2026-08-28

  • Clearer fee information showing what your recipient receives
  • Clearer fee information for individual and batch payments
  • Simpler network fee hints

2026-08-27

  • Clearer network fee guidance for Pay many
  • See the fee before confirming a payment
  • Support for paying the service fee in SOL on Solana
  • Pay links without signing in, with support for native SOL payments

2026-08-14

  • Dropdown lists open where there is room on the screen
  • Pick the network first, then the token it carries
  • Easier access to dropdown menus below the navigation bar
  • Clearer choices in Pay many and a calmer Request screen
  • More accurate network labels in the sidebar
  • More consistent amount displays across the app
  • Improved dashboard balance totals
  • Fewer steps to send a payment
  • Clearer wording and a batch payment list that fits mobile screens
  • Improved batch payment reliability
  • See your balance across supported networks
  • Token and network pickers with real logos
  • The chain is picked in the app, next to the token

2026-08-13

  • Send batch payments in supported assets, including ETH
  • Support for batch payments in native network assets
  • Improved payment verification
  • Clearer totals in payment history
  • Improved payment recording reliability
  • Request a payment in a supported asset
  • Improved amount handling for ETH payments

2026-08-12

  • See your balance for the token you select
  • Improved asset matching for payment requests
  • Send ETH payments
  • Send USDT and see the asset used for each payment
  • Improved verification for payments in supported assets

2026-08-04

  • Smoother navigation before connecting a wallet
  • Clearer amount formatting
  • A new animation when a payment arrives
  • Copy payment proof and see the network used
  • Improved payment recording reliability

2026-08-03

  • More accurate status updates for completed payments
  • Improved payment reliability and status updates
  • Improved payment support across available networks
  • Fewer unnecessary approval steps when paying
  • Improved payment verification across supported networks
  • Smoother approval progress for batch payments
  • Improved batch payment reliability

2026-08-02

  • More reliable wallet detection on desktop

2026-07-29

  • A clearer wallet picker on desktop
  • Smoother connections to external wallets
  • Smoother handoff to your wallet on mobile
  • Clearer wallet connection approvals on mobile
  • Easier access to batch payments, recipient names and sign-out
  • Finish the remaining screens against the design

2026-07-28

  • Teal accent, design voice, mobile CTA, and drop duplicate chrome
  • Motion pass and centred screen columns
  • Quicker payments, clearer copy feedback and mobile navigation
  • Make the shell the site, with in-place screen switching
  • Port the design's app shell instead of approximating it
  • Rebuild the dashboard as the Nest screen from the design
  • Quick payment amounts, clearer confirmation details and history totals

2026-02-26

  • More reliable balance updates
  • Improved balance loading and desktop wallet selection

2026-02-10

  • Smoother handoff to your wallet on mobile
  • Easier wallet selection on mobile
  • A simpler wallet connection experience

2026-01-29

  • Clearer connection progress when returning from your wallet
  • Smoother reconnection when returning from your wallet
  • Improved mobile wallet sign-in feedback
  • More reliable reconnection to mobile wallets
  • Clearer wallet connection progress
  • Clearer mobile buttons and smoother return from your wallet
  • Fewer steps and clearer progress when connecting a wallet
  • A simpler wallet connection and sign-in flow
  • A smoother mobile web experience
  • Improved mobile wallet connection flow

2026-01-28

  • Improved amount handling in the homepage payment form
  • Improve request form error handling

2026-01-27

  • Improved dashboard logo proportions on mobile
  • Easier mobile controls and clearer wallet guidance
  • Branded previews when sharing PidgePay links
  • A bigger logo and refreshed wording on payment pages
  • A new PidgePay browser icon
  • Clearer feedback during sign-in
  • A simpler homepage button layout
  • Add spacing around dashboard logo
  • Double dashboard logo size to 96x96px
  • Redesign UI with dark theme and improved UX

2026-01-26

  • PidgePay launches with support for multiple networks